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Bing, The Crystal Ball

Microsoft's Bing "prediction engine" continues to accumulate a pretty impressive resume of successful "educated guesses", on results of things like NFL and soccer games and most recently, the Eurovision Song Contest. Having been born and raised in Europe, I was a little startled to realize that the Eurovision Song Contest was still a thing. Regardless, Bing has developed a solid reputation for data analysis.

According to Cortana/Bing, and as shown by Microsoft,
Sweden (perennial winners of the camp song-fest) have the strongest
shot of winning Eurovision 2015, with an estimated 17.1% chance of bring
home the trophy.